Contested Cities and Urban Activism

This edited volume advances our understanding of urban activism beyond the social movement theorization dominated by thesis of political opportunity structure and resource mobilization, as well as by research based on experience from the global north. Covering a diversity of urban actions from a bro...

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Other Authors: Yip, Ngai Ming (Editor), Martínez López, Miguel Angel (Editor), Sun, Xiaoyi (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Palgrave Macmillan 2019, 2019
Edition:1st ed. 2019
Series:The Contemporary City
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a SECTION 1 – INTRODUCTION -- Introduction -- Framing Urban Movements, Contesting Global Capitalism and Liberal Democracy -- SECTION 2 - CHANGING FORMS OF URBAN ACTIVISM -- Housing Activism against the Production of Ignorance: Some Lessons from the UK -- Urban Food Activism in Athens: Recovering More Autonomous Forms of Social reproduction -- From Obedience to Resistance: Understanding Equal Rights to Education Movement as a Cultural Process -- SECTION 3 - URBAN ACTIVISM – ACTIVISTS AND THEIR NETWORKS -- Has Urban Cycling Improved in Hong Kong? A Socio-Political Analysis of Cycling Advocacy Activists' Contributions and Dilemmas -- Urban Activism in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Deprived and Discontented Citizens Demanding a More Just City -- From the Squatters' Movement to Housing Activism in Spain: Identities, Tactics and Political Orientation -- Squatted Social Centers Activists and ‘Locally Unwanted Land Use’ Movements in Italy -- SECTION 4 - URBAN ACTIVISM - CITIZENSHIP AND RIGHT TO THE CITY -- ‘We are Quality Citizens of Bangkok Too’: Urban Activism in Bangkok during the 2011 Floods -- The Evolution of Housing Rights Activism in South Korea -- The Squatters’ and Tenants’ Movement in Buenos Aires. A Vindication of Centrality and the Self-Managed Production of Space 
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520 |a This edited volume advances our understanding of urban activism beyond the social movement theorization dominated by thesis of political opportunity structure and resource mobilization, as well as by research based on experience from the global north. Covering a diversity of urban actions from a broad range of countries in both hemispheres as well as the global north and global south, this unique collection notably focuses on non-institutionalised or localised urban actions that have the potential to bring about radical structural transformation of the urban system and also addresses actions in authoritarian regimes that are too sensitive to call themselves “movement”. It addresses localized issues cut off from international movements such as collective consumption issues, like clean water, basic shelter, actions against displacement or proper venues for street vendors, and argues that the integration of the actions in cities in the global south with the specificity of their local social and political environment is as pivotal as their connection with global movement networks or international NGOs. A key read for researchers and policy makers cutting across the fields of urban sociology, political science, public policy, geography, regional studies and housing studies, this text provides an interdisciplinary and international perspective on 21st century urban activism in the global north and south